Author's Note: Damn, it's been a long time since I updated. @_@;; I kinda forgot about this fic to be honest. I'm back now and ready to write!~
Chapter Nine
Risika raced towards Erik, Daniel, Jessica, and Aubrey the instant she heard the news. She burst through the door, looking a bit flustered.
The other four vampires looked up at her entrance in surprise.
"What's wrong?" Daniel questioned.
"Kassandra's at Midnight. She's taking over the place." Risika hissed.
Aubrey swore and then turned to Erik and Daniel.
"You two, go with Risika and get as many of their leaders out of there. Jaguar, Gabriel, Nathaniel, and the three humans that are running it right now." he commanded.
Erik, Daniel, and Risika were gone in an instant.
Jessica stood for a moment, her body quivering. Aubrey turned to her.
"Are you okay?" he questioned.
The look in her eyes gave him all the answer he needed.
*~~~~~~~*
Turquoise awoke with pain searing through her skull. She had obviously been hurriedly knocked out. She looked around trying to figure out where she was. She was tied tightly to a chair that was in a dimly lit room. She could see little of her surroundings.
Was she even still in Midnight? Perhaps she was in one of the hidden rooms...
She didn't have any more time to think as a shadow broke through the darkness of the room. Immediately Turquoise recognized the figure as Kassandra, the new vampire that had come.
Kassandra had an awful smirk on her face as she approached Turquoise.
"What do you want?" Turquoise heard her voice whisper.
"Blood." Kassandra replied, gently tilting Turquoise's head to the side so that the vein appeared clearly.
Kassandra bent over closer, her fangs becoming visible to Turquoise. They glinted, even in the little light that was shed in the room, they glinted evilly.
Turquoise's heart began to beat in rapid horror, as Kassandra inched closer. She was going to die...
Kassandra paused.
"The fear is rolling off you in awful waves... I thought you were supposed to be a hunter."
Turquoise swallowed the lump that was rising in her throat. She was a hunter. Which meant she was going to let this vampire know how terrified she was. Her heart stilled a little, when Kassandra bit into her neck.
The blood spilled out of Turquoise's body, through Kassandra's lips. Turquoise gasped out in pain. She couldn't stop herself. The pain was so immense. Nothing like she had ever imagined. Tears appeared in her eyes, but she didn't let one fall. Her sight was growing fainter anyway... Life was leaving her body quickly.
Finally Kassandra released, and she fell limp in her bindings, head rolling.
Kassandra licked her fangs in satisfaction.
"Now... You think that hurt? Bringing you over to the vampire side is what I will make hurt the most, I promise you that."
Turquoise couldn't believe what she was hearing. Why would Kassandra turn her into a vampire? Her mouth felt like lead, and her tongue like stone, she couldn't reply.
Kassandra knelt down and brought something to Turquoise's lips.
The hunter knew what it was. Kassandra's blood. Turquoise refused.
She didn't want to be a vampire. But if she did have to be one, she sure as hell was not going to be turned into one by this monster! To have this vampire's blood flowing through her veins made her feel sick.
Kassandra laughed softly, and grabbed Turquoise's hair. In a solid yank, Turquoise's head fall backwards. Kassandra stood and began to drip her blood slowly down Turquoise's throat.
Turquoise shut her eyes as she felt the vampire blood begin to enter her system.
'This can't be happening...' she thought vaguely. 'It just can't...'
But she knew it was. She could already feel the transformation beginning to take place. Her heart was beginning to still. Air was becoming unnecessary. Her incisors were beginning to lengthen.
Kassandra stepped away then, leaving her finally.
Turquoise began to cry softly only than, at all she had lost.
*~~~~~~~~~*
Jaguar threw himself against the door of the cell he was confined too. He was pissed, that was simple to say. He had woken up in a cell that he had designed. Across from him were Gabriel and Nathaniel. The other two vampires had been watching him for the last two hours, fruitlessly trying to get free.
"Jaguar, you're going to hurt yourself." Gabriel spoke from where he was tossing a rock up and down.
"Shut up. At least I'm trying to get out of here." Jaguar snarled.
"Use your brains than. Not your brawn. That obviously isn't working." Nathaniel replied in his prim voice.
Jaguar collapsed to the ground, in a defeated position.
"Do you think they're still alive?" he questioned finally.
An uneasy silence became thick in the air.
"No." Nathaniel finally replied. "Kassandra isn't one to leave loopholes."
"Ahh, so true." Gabriel groaned. "We should have killed the stupid bitch the first time she came around."
"But then Siete would have had our necks." Jaguar pointed out with a sarcastic grin. "It's a pointless cycle."
A sudden clatter came a few feet away, causing Jaguar to stand quickly.
Three figures were coming out of the darkness, but none of them looked familiar to the caged vampires.
*~~~~~~*
"Is she dead?" Jeshikah asked with obvious happiness.
"Better. She's one of us." Kassandra asked, checking her appearance for any spilled blood.
"What?" Jeshikah spat, disgust painted all over her features.
"I made her a vampire. Is there a problem with that?" Kassandra repeated, turning and challenging Jeshikah.
"No, no. Of course not." the other vampire quickly amended. "But why?"
"It will be wonderful to use her against Jaguar. The pained look that will come across his face when he sees that the thing he cares most about in the world belongs to me."
Jeshikah stood still for a moment, thinking this over. Kassandra's mind had always been twisted evilly, almost to the point of scaring even her.
"Now, what about your part?" Kassandra asked.
"The younger boy, Eric was killed with no problem at all. Hardly any blood on the walls. The hunter... Ravyn went down with more of a fight." Jeshikah replied.
"Did she destroy any of our vampires?" Kassandra questioned.
"One is seriously hurt, but he will heal of course."
"Good...good... Now to the next stage of my plan..."
Author's Note: Here we go... Review or email at vegetaztwin@hotmail.com
